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Developing Critical Success Factors (CSF) for Information Systems Strategic Planning (ISSP)

Tradition Information Systems Strategic Planning (ISSP) develops IT strategy for a business, or business unit. This case study demonstrates the use of IT strategic planning for strategic business processes – it illustrates the definition of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Information System Needs (lSN) on Strategic Business Processes instead of Strategic Business Units.

A New Approach and Framework for IT Business Cases

The authors argue that organizations pay lip service to IT investment management – they insist on a business case for every IT investment but do not apply the rigor to what is contained in it. The resulting lack of IT investment results is both expected and can be fixed using a better business case framework developed by the authors.

Business IT Alignment Through a Shared C-Suite Vision for IT

Can the CEO, CFO, CMO, CPO, and the CIO envision the same future for the information technology capability of the organization? Is it possible? Is it necessary? Does it help? The authors present a framework to make this shared vision for IT possible and useful! 

Service-Oriented Architecture and IT-Business Alignment

Does SOA live up to its promise of enabling business it alignment? Authors argue that SOA has not lived up to its promise however, "IT infrastructure flexibility is a potential enabler of IT-Business strategic alignment under conditions of a dynamic external environment."

Enablers and Inhibitors of SISP

This paper presents a model of interrelationships between inhibitors and enablers of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) and reports on a pilot case study that investigated enablers and inhibitors of SISP in a large Korean corporation. The study demonstrated close relationships between enablers and inhibitors and benefits of SISP.

What Helps Business IT Alignment?

The author’s research hints at three things with business it alignment: 1) alignment improves organizational performance 2) formal organizational structure alignment does not help 3) informal organizational alignment does have a positive impact!

Developing IT Strategy For Business Value

This research paper suggests that there are five critical success factors that drive IT strategy, identifies five best practices, and discusses challenges faced while developing an IT Strategy.

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